JAL to be first airline to trial flights with biofuel from energy crop

Japan Airlines is to be the
first airline to conduct a demonstration flight using a sustainable biofuel
refined from the energy crop, camelina. It will use a blend of half
traditional kerosene and half biofuel on one of the four Pratt & Whitney
JT9D engines on a Boeing 747-300 on a special flight from Tokyo Haneda on 30
January. The biofuel will be a mixture of from camelina (84 per cent),
jatropha (less than 16 per cent) and algae (less than 1 per cent).